Saudi Arabia Has Beheaded 71 People In The Past Four Months

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France Presse

Agence France-Presse
30 Apr 2015 at 12:36 ET

A Saudi national who murdered his father and a drug trafficker were beheaded Thursday, bringing to 71 the number of executions carried out this year in the kingdom, the government said.

The number compares with 87 in the whole of 2014, according to an AFP tally.

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Amnesty International has criticised a “macabre spike” in the use of the death penalty this year in Saudi Arabia, which the London-based watchdog ranked among the top three executioners in the world in 2014.

Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death under the kingdom’s strict version of Islamic sharia law.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/saudi-arabia-has-beheaded-71-people-in-the-past-four-months/

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. in a race with Iran, I see.

Somehow I don't care much for the winner of such races.

[Orrex]

2. Nobody comes out ahead.

Except the country that we don't drone-bomb, I guess.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. ouch.

Yeah, we sure have double standards these days, and I don't like it much.

Due process? not anymore.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

4. But everyone comes out de-head.

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. No crime is worthy of capital punishment (ie. state sponsored murder)

But apostasy is the most appalling reason ever.

Apostasy in Islam (Arabic: ردة? riddah or ارتداد irtidād'') is commonly defined as the conscious abandonment of Islam by a Muslim in word or through deed.

Key word "conscious". An adult decision in ones mind. These leftover rulers from the dark ages, are no better than ISIS. Some of their sons were brought up there, with Sharia Law and anti-West indoctrination, to come over here and fly planes into buildings on 9/11. Their families quickly scuttled out of the country even during a no-fly order. And administrations then and since continue to tongue-bathe them.

[SoapBox]

6. They have oil money...

But they are still blood thirsty savages.

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. Whereas we've only executed 13. C'mon, Texas, we're counting on you.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions-year

[leftynyc]

10. When did TX execute someone

for apostasy? I missed that.

[mountain grammy]

11. Those are the state sanctioned ones on the books..

the street executions push the numbers up a bit.

[jtuck004]

8. Oh, hell, we shoot that many people in a week. Sometimes just for having no money. n/t

[YOHABLO]

12. Or for being Black and walking.

[SummerSnow]

9. OOh look our allies at work, oh but they have oil cover your eyes and look away

We love Sharia!!

[NaturalHigh]

13. Just curious...how do they behead people in Saudi Arabia?

Is it the guillotine?

[Aristus]

15. I saw a video once, taken from a distance. It looked like a sword.

It wouldn't surprise me. There's a sword on the Saudi national flag.

[jmowreader]

19. It's definitely a sword

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_executions_in_Saudi_Arabia

[NaturalHigh]

20. That's gruesome.

How would they ever find someone to volunteer to be the swordsman?

[tabasco]

21. Humans are murderous apes

I'm sure there are many volunteers.

[NaturalHigh]

22. Unfortunately you are probably right.

[quadrature]

14. more humane than gettng droned ...nt

[valerief]

16. Saudi Arabia, the Texas of the Middle East. nt

[OnyxCollie]

17. Slackers.

[riderinthestorm]

18. The new king making sure everyone knows how tough he is